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Encouraging News From Afghanistan The US Treasury Department has issued a general license for US based NGOs to continue operation in Afghanistan, offering humanitarian assistance to the poor and marginalized. Alhamd’Allah. CAI has resumed complete operations as of October 2. This includes the CPES school, the SGH and ZBH safehouses for 150 orphans, the 6 […]
Have Sheesha, Will Smoke Emirates flight EK 726 from Dar es Salaam to Dubai is almost full. The crew (most of them) look like human beings now, unlike recently, when they donned the awful-looking COVID protective gear as if some unconvincing aliens from another world. The flight takes off and lands on time with Emirates […]
Housing Kabul The housing for homeless widows in Kabul was abruptly stopped when the legal administration of Afghanistan changed. Out of the current batch of 55 homes, 40 have been completed and handed over, the balance homes are in various stages of construction. Sharing a few photos. Yemen Vaccines Update The vaccination of 14,000 vulnerable […]
Yes, I Am Mad The die is cast. The impossible has happened. My nightmare is real. I have navigated through some pretty turbulent airs in my life and been through some tough situations. Some life-threatening as well. This event is unique, however, and no matter where I turn and what rationale I try to use […]
These Poor Children Need Help To Eat Madagascar is a poor island now suffering even more due to COVID-19 effects and a serious drought. We need help to feed 1,000 dirt-poor children in 18 centers that cater for their education. A meal costs US$0.25. Imagine! Let’s please help feed them for a year, 5 times […]
Mshenzi – Uncivilized Mjeenga – Illiterate I’ve just finished my early morning exercise routine and am looking forward to a robust cup of Tanzanian coffee and skin-still-on roasted cashews – khorosho (closest taste to this probably after death. In janna?) when my cellphone rudely farts. It’s one more maddening WhatsApp video forwards of the rites […]
Daily Life At CAI Sakina Home – Sa’naa, Yemen A glance at the daily lives of 150 orphans whom CAI donors support. They come to the specially made school for them, have breakfast, attend classes, perform extracurricular activities, play, drink milk, do their assignment, eat a late healthy lunch and return home to their guardians, […]
This Blog was published in 2018 – I rerun it now due to the current events in Afghanistan. It’ll give you an insight into the challenges that CAI personnel went through in intricately building up the current compliant infrastructure that is now teetering. I have visited Afghanistan 41 times since 2007. The number of CAI […]
Salaam The speed at which the security situation in Afghanistan has/is deteriorating is both breathtaking and heartbreaking. Fourteen years of very hard work in painstakingly building a cohesive infrastructure of humanitarian projects now suddenly seem to unhinge. Never in my wildest imagination did I for a second envisage the country falling to the Taliban, certainly […]
CAI Sponsored School In Freetown, SL – An Update The school for over 500 displaced children who lost their parents in the devastating mudslides in Sierra Leone will soon go to this wonderful modern school at Six Mile outside Freetown. A photo update. CAI Sponsored School In Saleh Pat Sukkur, Pakistan – An Update About […]
